INDEX.

Allotments, [114]

Andrews, Hy., astronomer, [34], [107]

Anstey Fair, Rural Sports at, [100]

Arrington, coaching at, [144]

Arrington-hill, [154]

"Bacca" and snuff for paupers, [41]

Banks stopping payment, [56]

Barkway, Day School at, [121]

—Milestones near, [15], [16]

—Terrible fire at, [178], [179]

—Volunteers of, [68]

—Whipping post at, [83]

—Workhouse at, [40]

Barley, "Fox and Hounds" at, [18]

Bassingbourn, [24], [65]

—Incendiary fires at, [170]

—Strange narrative of horse-stealing at, [89]

—Volunteers of, [71]

Beacon fires, [66], [67]

Beadle, dignity and duties of, [53], [54]

—The, and Bastardy laws, [163]

—Emoluments of, [55]

Beldam, Joseph, senr., [28]

—Valentine, [27]

Biggleswade, dreadful fire at, [179]

Bishop Stortford, Volunteers of, [71]

Blucher at Cambridge, [72]

Body-snatching, horrors of, [81]

Bowling Greens, [24], [69]

Bow Street Runner, [170]

Buntingford, Bridewell at, [93]

—Mails from, [115]

—Pauper Weddings at, [50]

—Queen & Prince Albert at, [187]

—Roads, [12]

Burying at four cross-roads, [86]

Butler, Henry, woolstapler, [105]

—John, [27]

—W. Warren, and his rhymes, [132-135]

Butcher, the, and the Baronet, [136]

Cambridge "Chronicle," [15]

—Coach, [10]

—Undergraduates and village rows, [138], [139]

Cambridgeshire Members of Parliament, [157]

Cannon, Mrs., Old Matt and the Burglars, [182]

Capital punishment, painful case of, [91]

—Sentence of death for theft at Melbourn, [91]

Carter, Valentine, stage-coach driver, [150]

Caxton, [71]

—Coaching to, [144]

—Gibbet, [13]

—Mail robbery, [48]

—Turnpike, the, [153], [154]

Cave Estate, Royston, [35], [37]

Census, manner of taking, [116]

—Returns of, in Appendix, [195], [196], [197]

Charles I. at Royston, [7]

Chartism at Royston, [127]

Chimney sweeps' climbing boys, [78]

Chipping, [12]

Cholera-morbus, the, alarm in Royston [60] years ago, [182], [183]

Coaching Accidents, [149], [150]

Coaches, begging from, [152]

—London to Edinburgh, [145]

—Palmy days and speed of, [146]

Coals brought from Cambridge to Royston, [75]

Cock-fighting, [23]

Cooper Thornhill's Ride, [178]

Cottage homes of England, dilapidation of, [192]

Crabb Robinson's Diary, [27]

Cricket in the 18th Century, [130]

Cross, Thos, stage-coach driver, [150]

—Autobiography of, [136-141]

Cruikshank, [67]

Dacre, Lord, [110]

—Lord and Lady, [121]

Daintry, Mrs. and Thomas, [115]

Day Schools, [120]

Death Sentences [100] years ago, [88]

Dogberry, Marrying the Paupers, [49], [50], [51]

—Reporting nuisances, [55], [66]

Dogs and Pedlars' Carts, [153]

Education in Villages, [117]

Electioneering in Herts., [156]

Farmers and the Labourers, [58]

—and Famine prices, [59]

Fire Brigade of last Century, [44]

Fly Wagons, [6]

—Journey to London, by, [143]

Flower, Benjamin, [27]

Food, Prices of, [75]

Fordham, E. K., [70]

—Edward Snow, [75]

—Henry, [7], [31], [78]

—John George, [168], [169], [175]

Forgery, Death sentences for, [92]

Fowlmere, Riot at, [169]

Foxton, Volunteers at, [71]

Free Trade, First meetings in Royston, [112]

French prisoners, [71]

Gallows, The, [88]

Gamlingay, Overseers and paupers at, [162]

Gas, first prices of, [114]

Gatward, James, and the Gibbet, [12], [13]

George III., his reign, [1]

—Fashions in times of, [76]

—Hooted and mobbed, [56]

—Jubilee of, [181]

George IV., and his Queen —Kingites and Queenites, [127]

Gransden, Pauper tyranny at, [166]

Guilden Morden, incendiary fires at, [167]

Hall, Robert, at Royston, [27]

Hardwicke, the Earl of, and the Queen's visit, [188], [189], [190]

—and Royston Races, [133]

—Lady, [21], [68]

Harston, enclosure riot at, [180], [181]

Hatfield, Royal Review at, [70]

Hauxton, sheep stealing at, [89]

Hertford, pillory at, [83]

Heydon Grange, prize-fighting near, [137]

Highwaymen, [151]

Highways, condition of, [8], [10]

Highway robbery, [90]

Hinxton, burning Pain's effigy at, [26]

Hinxworth, labourers' earnings, [59]

Hitchin, awful visitation at, [179]

Hue and cry, [48]

Influenza, following great frost in 1836, [186]

Inoculation, [80]

Jacobin, [4], [26]

Jacklin, James, [72]

James I. at Royston, [8]

"John Ward, beadle," [55]

Kellarman, alchemist of Lilley, [102]

Kneesworth and Caxton toll proceeds of, [154]

Lambert, Daniel, the fat man, [181]

Letters, postage of, [115]

Louis XVIII., at Royston, [181]

McAdam and the North Road, [154]

Mail coach driver killed, [186]

Market ordinary, the, [109]

Melbourn, the Queen and Prince Albert at, [188]

Meldreth and its Stocks, [86]

Memorable year of scarcity, [57]

Mordens, the, [24]

Napoleon Buonaparte, [5]

—Shadow of, [56]

—Threatened invasion by, [61]

Nash, William, [7], [27]

Newspapers, how obtained, [77]

Noon's Folly, and its prize-fights, [136], [139]

Nuthamstead "Sparrow hill," [47]

Odsey Races, the, [22]

Old Matt, the huntsman, [131]

Old music and musicians, [128], [129]

Old Poor-law, the, [32]

Open corn markets, [110]

Packhorses, [6], [7]

Parish Clerks, [122]

—Constable, and his accounts, [46]

—Herdsman, the, [105]

—Leaving without certificate, [43]

—Workhouse, how managed, [39]

Parliamentary Reform, [29], [156]

—Rejoicings at Royston, [157]

Parochial Assessment, [34]

—Parliament, the, [32]

Pattens and Clogs, [113]

Paupers, [40], [41], [42], [44], [46]

Peachey, the Hon. Mrs., [68]

Pedestrian feat by a woman, [182]

Phillips, John, [181]

Pickering, Miss, [27]

Pillion, the use of, [7]

Police, the new, [174], [175], [176]

Poor-law Reform, [159]

—Making up wages, [161]

—Memorable scene on Royston Heath, [172], [173]

—Objection to Central Workhouse, [170]

Poor-law Pauper tyranny, [166]

—Riots and stack firing, [167], [168]

Poor-rate of 22s. in the L at Royston, [61]

Posting and Posthorses, [146]

Press Gang, and terrors of, [86], [88]

Prize-fighting, [135], [136]

—Melbourn Champion, [137], [138]

—Brighton Bill, [138]

—Ward and Crawley fighting for the Championship on Royston Heath, [137]

Public Worship, [122]

Puckeridge Statute Fair, [98]

Queen Victoria's Coronation, rejoicings at Royston, [186]

—Jubilee, [70]

—and Prince Albert at Royston, [187], [188]

Radical Royston, [126]

Railway, first use of, [176], [177]

Revolution, the French, [2], [3], [4]

Richardson, James, [151]

Royal Show, Cambridge, 1840, [186]

Royston, Badger-baiting at, [23]

—Book Club and Debates at, [26], [31], [79]

—Burloes Hill cut through, [183], [184]

—Cave opened, [36], [37]

—Coaching at, [143-145], [148]

—Early Temperance work, [127]

—18th Century bye-laws in, [25]

—Fair tippling at, [100]

—King James' stables at, [22]

—Market, [67], [108]

—Old Royston Club and its members at, [19], [20]

—Pillory at, [83]

—Races, [133]

—Red Lion, social gatherings, [21]

—Stocks at, [83]

—Volunteers of, [70]

—Whipping post at, [83]

Rushden, A. Meetkerke of, [122]

Salisbury, Marchioness, burnt to death, [184]

Semaphore on Royston Heath, [66]

Sheep stealing, death sentences for, [89]

Shelford fires, death sentence for, [168]

Shepreth, skilful woman of, [101]

Shield, Capt., the Rev. Thomas, [68], [71]

Small-pox, a recommendation, [44]

Snelgar, Rev. J., [186]

Snowstorms, memorable, [181], [182], [185]

Soame, Sir Peter, [131], [132], [136]

Stocks, a Lord Chief Justice in, [85]

"Tally-ho" and "Safety" Coaches, [146], [148]

Taxes on marriages, &c., [78]

Therfield, searching for mail, [49]

Threshing machines, breaking of, [166]

Thurnall, Henry, and the highwayman, [90]

—Commended by Poor-law Commissioners, [171]

Thurnall, H. J., picture by, [18]

Thurtle and Hunt, trial of, [49]

Tinder Box, the, [73], [74]

Tithes collected in kind, [124]

Turpin, Dick, traditions of, [13], [14]

Velocipede, the, [152]

Volunteers, associations of, [67]

Wadesmill Turnpike, [155]

Wagon and sign post, the, [184], [185]

Walton, Joe, coachdriver, [148], [149]

Warren, J., [68], [157]

Window tax, [79]

Witches, [101]

Wheat, 28s. a bushel, [60]

"Wheatbarn tasker," the, [166]

Woodcock, Elizabeth, buried alive in the snow, [181]

Wortham, Lady, [77]

Wortham, Squire, [131]

Wrestling matches, [24]